Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys meet Steve's mother, Alice Bell and Tommy is given a job in the storage garage which she owns jointly with Mack Steward. Steve's brother Don Bell is working with some gangsters by tipping them off on valuable merchandise that can be hijacked. Pig, Ape and String overhear Don's plans to use Tommy as the fall guy in the next hijacking.
Billy Halop
as Tommy Davis
Huntz Hall
as Pig
Grace McDonald
as Norene Steward
Bernard Punsly
as Ape
Gabriel Dell
as String
Edward Norris
as Clinker
Virginia Brissac
as Mrs. Bell
Tommy Kelly
as Steve
Dick Hogan
as Don Bell
Jed Prouty
as Mack Steward
Murray Alper
as Shorty
Paul Fix
as Marco